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Quotes About Teaching

Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.
~ Lewis M. Branscomb
A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.
~ Louis L'Amour
At our best, we're all teachers
~ Maya Angelou
For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Commitment is a word that cannot stand alone. We must always ask, "Committed to what?" . . . . let us be committed to . . . using Jesus Christ as our master teacher.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
When I teach people, I marry them.
~ Sylvia Ashton-Warner
To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.
~ Michael Bennet
I always wanted to be a teacher.
~ Nicky Hilton
In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.
~ Michael Craig-Martin
They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures
~ Tawni O'Dell
I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.
~ Patti Smith
Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.
~ Paulo Freire
Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.
~ Theodore L. Cuyler
I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.
~ Tyler Hilton
I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.
~ Raheem Jarbo
If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.
~ Richard Stengel
When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
~ Robert Frost
The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.
~ Robert H. Frank
Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.
~ Rush Limbaugh
It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.
~ Sam Abell
I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.
~ Richard Simmons